Teenage tourist stabbed in ‘unprovoked’ attack inside McDonald’s near Times Square: sources
Metro Teenage tourist stabbed in ‘unprovoked’ attack inside McDonald’s near Penn Station: sources By Joe Marino, Amanda Woods and Jorge Fitz-Gibbon Published Aug. Add The New York Post on Google A 19-year-old Australian tourist was stabbed and seriously wounded in an unprovoked attack at a Midtown Manhattan McDonald’s early Monday, police and law enforcement sources said. The victim was sitting and eating inside the fast-food eatery on Eighth Avenue near Penn Station around 2 a.m. when he was stabbed in the rib cage and the back, the sources said.
- ▪Metro Teenage tourist stabbed in ‘unprovoked’ attack inside McDonald’s near Penn Station: sources By Joe Marino, Amanda Woods and Jorge Fitz-Gibbon Published Aug.
- ▪Add The New York Post on Google A 19-year-old Australian tourist was stabbed and seriously wounded in an unprovoked attack at a Midtown Manhattan McDonald’s early Monday, police and law enforcement sources said.
- ▪The victim was sitting and eating inside the fast-food eatery on Eighth Avenue near Penn Station around 2 a.m. when he was stabbed in the rib cage and the back, the sources said.
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| Canonical URL | https://nypost.com/2026/08/17/us-news/teenage-tourist-stabbed-in-unprovoked-attack-inside-mcdonalds-near-times-square-sources/ |
| Publication time | Mon, 17 Aug 2026 10:31:51 -0400 |
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